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I'm surprised by the detail and depth of the article from a corpo-fascist news source.* It's not a great article, in this respect, but it's better than most. For one thing, it re-states the facts about leftist President Alvaro Colom's complete innocence in the death of suicide Rodrigo Rosenberg--that strange event in which Rosenberg arranged for his own murder and left behind a tape saying Colom ordered it. So often events like this, that slander leftist politicians, never get sufficient coverage or follow-up to overcome the slander effect. So I was glad to see this clearly stated.
The activities of this UN legal commission are also fascinating. (They are the ones who conducted the difficult investigation into Rosenberg's death and completely exonerated Colom.) I would like to know more about how the UN gets involved in troubled legal systems. I can think of some other troubled legal systems that could use their good offices (Colombia's, Honduras', our own). But the article is not very enlightening about this.
It is no surprise at all that the filthy dirty leaders of prior rightwing governments and associates of ex-dictator Efrain Rios Montt are objecting to the scrutiny. Like our own junta--Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, et al--they would long ago have been in jail if the justice system was working. They now want these investigations localized. Ha, ha.
That would be kind of like putting AG Eric Holder in charge of investigating Bushwhack assassinations and torture--Holder, who, as a private attorney, got Chiquita execs off with a handslap for paying rightwing death squads to murder trade unionists on Chiquita farms in Colombia, and who also aided the extradition of death squad witnesses from Colombia to the U.S., where they have been buried in the U.S. federal prison system, out of the reach of Colombian prosecutors, by complete sealing of their cases. In short, to Holder--the "local" police authority in the U.S.--some people are too powerful to prosecute. So it will take the UN, the Hague, somebody else--outside, objective parties--to ever get at our war criminals.
Meanwhile, our "justice" system continues to put away thousands of small time drug dealers and users and other minor offenders, filling our prisons, for ten, twenty, thirty years, with people who shouldn't be there, and running one of the filthiest "prison-industrial complexes" on earth, overseen by a brutal, militaristic establishment that relishes injecting human beings with lethal "cocktails."
WE need a UN legal commission. Which brings me to the matters on which this article doesn't go deep enough. The only way that Efrain Rios Montt could maintain his horrendously bloody rule in Guatemala was RONALD REAGAN, who funded and supported that monster. It is not the only godawful war crime that Reagan is responsible for, but it is the worst. TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND Mayan villagers were slaughtered in Guatemala, with Reagan's direct complicity. The UN commission is dealing with the aftermath--the complete wreckage of Guatemalan society, and the lack of prosecution of these dreadful murderers. But they aren't--and probably can't--deal with the U.S. government collusion in that genocide and in the subsequent mayhem in Guatemala that those war crimes initiated.
The article doesn't mention Reagan. It doesn't mention the corrupt, murderous, failed U.S. "war on drugs" and its godawful impacts on Latin American countries. It doesn't mention the war profiteering. And it doesn't mention U.S. "free trade for the rich"--which is the motivator behind the war profiteers (to nazify and control the slave labor market and resources of Latin American countries). The article is superficial in this respect. Guatemala is a troubled country FOR A REASON. So is Mexico. So is Honduras. So is Colombia. And that REASON is Washington DC and its multinational corporate rulers and war profiteers.
One other thing: I am not satisfied that Rodrigo Rosenberg's death has been fully explained. It was just too much like so many other CIA "dirty tricks" against leftist leaders in Latin America. Suspicion about it continues to nag me, as with so many events during the Bush Junta in particular. Now we learn that Dick Cheney likely had his own private assassination team, with this "informal" contract with Blackwater (which was apparently training its assassins in Colombia!). And of course there was also Rumsfeld's "Office of Special Plans"--his own private espionage and "dirty tricks" shop--which, among other things, cooked up the WMD "evidence" against Iraq. (We also know that Rumsfeld was involved in some way in the Colombian/Uribe treachery against Hugo Chavez back in 2007-2008--a long story, which I won't go into here.)
One of the Bush Junta's chief problems in Latin America was that leftist leaders kept getting elected no matter how much money, bullying and "dirty tricks" they brought to bear on the situation, trying to install U.S. toadies (and monsters) in power, like Reagan and Kissinger were able to do. President Colom was one of the later victories for the left--and a very important one, because he got elected in Central America, their "circle the wagons" area, only one country away from the U.S. border (with Mexico coming within a hairsbreadth of electing a leftist shortly before), and amidst victories for the left in Nicaragua, El Salvador and Honduras and formation of the Venezuela-organized ALBA trade group, a rival to U.S. "free trade for the rich." So there was plenty of motive to try to take Colom down by stealth.
A news article--and particularly a corpo-fascist 'news' article--would never get into such a subject without some objective evidence to rely on (and even then, the corpo-fascist 'news' wouldn't touch it), and I don't believe that the UN legal commission ever gave the slightest hint that Rosenberg had been manipulated by stealth forces. They concluded that it was Rosenberg's "personal troubles" that resulted in his false accusation. But I think that "motive" screams, in this case, as does method. WHY would Rosenberg's "personal troubles" prompt him to try to bring down a leftist president in this truly bizarre fashion? (And it almost succeeded!) Possible, yes, as the act of a "lone" nut. Plausible? Not so much.
The UN legal commission may be doing great and courageous work in Guatemala, cleaning up that U.S.-created disaster. But--somewhat like the courageous prosecutors in Colombia--I suspect that they don't dare point the finger at the powerful instigator of the death and mayhem that ripped Guatemala to pieces.
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*(I wasn't sure who AJC was, so I went to the web site. There was no explanation of "AJC" there and no "about" page. It's a typical corpo-fascist news web page--a lot of junk--so I figured it had to be owned by some conglomerate, but not until I noticed the "weather temp" for Atlanta in a tiny upper lefthand corner item did I begin to get a notion of what paper it was. I had to google "ajc, atlanta" to find out, then I had to google some more to find out who owned them. It's the Atlantic Journal Constitution, owned by the Cox conglomerate, and has a long history of consolidation and monopoly of print and TV news in the Atlanta region and nationally. It's interesting how you can smell a corpo-fascist news source from the junky presentation. They also make it very difficult to grasp who owns, controls and profits from this "news" and what their agenda is. Cox "owns newspapers, fifteen television stations, 86 radio stations, Cox Communications, Manheim and AutoTrader.com," according to wiki, and with digital/internet/wireless communications networks in 14 states--all of it owned/controlled by the uber-rich Cox family.)
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